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The turboencabulator or turbo-encabulator (and its later incarnation, the retroencabulator or retro-encabulator) is a fictional machine whose alleged existence became an in-joke and subject of professional humor among engineers. The explanation of the supposed product makes extensive use of technobabble. The gag was popular for many years. The following quote is from the ''Time'' article. ''General Electric'', ''Chrysler'' and ''Rockwell Automation'' use many of the same words.〔 ==History== The original technical description of the "turbo-encabulator" was written by British graduate student John Hellins Quick (1923-1991). It was published in 1944 by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers Students’ Quarterly Journal in an article titled "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" by "J.H. Quick, Student" 〔http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5328648〕 as also noted by consulting firm Arthur D. Little in a 1995 reprint of Quick's description, and giving Quick's full name.〔 http://www.adl.com/uploads/tx_extprism/1995_q1_29.pdf〕 The earliest written U.S. source may have been in 1946, in an Arthur D. Little Industrial Bulletin. An early popular American reference to the turbo-encabulator appeared in an article by New York lawyer Bernard Salwen in ''Time'' on April 15, 1946. Part of Salwen's job was to review technical manuscripts. He was amused by the jargon and passed on the description from the Arthur D. Little pamphlet. ''Time'' got with the gag, featuring the device in a May 6, 1946 issue, described as "An adjunct to the turbo-encabulator, employed whenever a barescent skor motion is required." A month later a response to reader mail on the feature appeared in the June 3, 1946 issue: In 1962 a turboencabulator data sheet was created by engineers at General Electric's Instrument Department, in West Lynn, Massachusetts. It quoted from the previous sources and was inserted into the General Electric Handbook.〔''(Turboencabulator )''.〕 The turboencabulator data sheet had the same format as the other pages in the G.E. Handbook. The engineers added "Shure Stat" in "Technical Features", which was peculiar only to the Instrument Department, and included the first known graphic representation of a "manufactured" Turboencabulator using parts made at the Instrument Department. In Bud Haggart, an actor who appeared in many industrial training films in and around Detroit, performed in the first film realization of the description and operation of the "Turboencabulator", using a truncated script adapted from Quick's article. Bud convinced director Dave Rondot and the film crew to stay after the filming of an actual GMC Trucks project training film to realize the Turboencabulator spot. In the former Chrysler Corporation "manufactured" the Turboencabulator in a video spoof. Rockwell Automation "manufactured" the renamed Retro-Encabulator in another video spoof in . On April Fools' Day 2013, Hank Green released a ''SciShow'' episode on YouTube entitled "The Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Turboencabulator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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